Bidspirit auction | AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus

AURELIUS VICTOR, Sextus - Historiae Romanae Breviarium Utrecht Fr. Halma & Willem vande Water 1696 8vo, (42), 434, (74) pp., engraved frontispiece (style of Romeyn de Hooghe), title page in red and black with title vignette, engraved plate, num. ills. of coins. Slightly age-toned. Bound as usual with: De Vita et Moribus Imperatorum Romanorum excerpta ... Utrecht, Fr. Halma & Willem vande Water (col. Gerard Muntendam), 1696. 168, [27] pp. With text illustrations of Roman emperors. Corner repaired of p. 19. Contemporary vellum binding, slightly soiled Dibdin I, 342-3: ”This is not only a rare book and elegantly printed, but it ranks among the best edited of the Variorum Classics in 8vo.”